Aesthetic Life Beauty and Art in Modern Japan.

"This study of modern Japan engages the fields of art history, literature, and cultural studies, seeking to understand how the "beautiful woman" (bijin) emerged as a symbol of Japanese culture during the Meiji period (1868-1912). With origins in the formative period of modern Japanese...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lippit, Miya Elise Mizuta (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston : BRILL, 2019.
Colección:Harvard East Asian monographs.
Temas:
Since 1800
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) > Japan.
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) in art.
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) in literature.
Arts, Japanese > 1868-
Aesthetics, Japanese > 19th century.
Aesthetics, Japanese > 20th century.
Beauté féminine (Esthétique) > Japon.
Beauté féminine (Esthétique) dans l'art.
Beauté féminine (Esthétique) dans la littérature.
Arts japonais > 1868-
HISTORY > Asia > Japan.
Aesthetics, Japanese.
Arts, Japanese.
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)
Identität > Motiv
Kolonialismus
Literatur
Loyalität > Motiv
Japan.
Taiwan
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • AESTHETIC LIFE: Beauty and Art in Modern Japan
  • CONTENTS
  • List of Illustrationsix
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chronology
  • Introduction: On First Becoming a Painting
  • 1.All Too Aesthetically: The Bijin in the Era of Japonisme
  • 2. " Fair Japan": Art, War, and the Bijin at the St. Louis World's Fair, 1904
  • 3. True Bijin: The Debate on Truth and Beauty
  • 4. Bijin Graphic: Illustrated Magazines and the Popular Ideology of Beauty
  • 5. " Short-Lived Beauty": Illustration and the Bijin Heroines of Literary Realism
  • 6. Living Works of Art: Soseki's Aesthetic Heroines
  • 7. Bijinga: The Nihonga Genre and the Fashioning of Material Beauty
  • Coda
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Illustration Credits (Chapter and Bibliography Frontispieces)
  • Index
  • Harvard East Asian Monographs

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